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@@ -1,3 +1,68 @@ + TXR 151 + 2016-09-27 + + + Features + + - Licensing: + - TXR returns to unmodified BSD 2-Clause + - Better code generation for simple cases of place mutation. + - Regex facelift: + - regex objects are callable like functions. + - Support for negative start or end positions in regex matching + operations. + - regsub function takes functional argument for more flexibility. + - Numerous new convenience regex functions: m^, m$, m^$, r^, r$, + r^$, f^, f$ and f^$. + - these simulate full matching and anchoring in various situations. + - New regex-source function, for obtaining a regex's original AST. + - Awk macro: + - conditions in cond-action clauses and in (rng start-cond end-cond) + expressions can be functions or regular expressions, which are + invoked on the record. + - New fconv conversions: iz, rz and others which yield a zero value + for empty, nonexistent or junk fields. + - orec variable provides access to original record, useful when rec + has been modified. + - rs variable can be dynamically changed now, taking effect for the + next record. + - paragraph mode implemented based on POSIX description and + observations of GNU Awk behavior. + - Library: + - New functions tointz and tofloatz. + - New build macro for procedural list building. + - New *load-path* special variable replaces the self-load-path + symbol macro (which still exists but simply expands to + *load-path*). + - load is now a function rather than macro. + - @(load)/@(include) directives now pull parent path from + *load-path* variable, rather than own source location. + - loading uses stricter criteria for deciding what relative paths + are automatically resolved relative to *load-path*. + - Streams: + - New strlist input streams: treat a list of strings as multi-line + text stream. + + Bugs + + - Awk macro: + - fixed broken updating assignments to awk variables, such as + (push item f). + - awk now exits if there are no cond-action clauses. + - Regex: + - match-regex function now returns match length as documented. + - Broken return value of match-regst fixed. + - Type of a regex object is now regex, rather than sys:regex. + - Exception in pretty-printing a correct expression, due to bug in + handling the & operator. + - Lists: + - out-of-range negative indices over lists now yield nil rather than + the first item. + - Command line: + - -Dvar=val binding are now visible to Lisp files. + + + TXR 150 2016-09-18 |